Did you know you would become as successful as you have? Hell, no. But you know what? You were prepared, baby.
QUINCY JONESPrince a true artist in every sense of the world. Gone way too soon.
More Quincy Jones Quotes
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The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
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You Make Your Mistakes To Learn How To Get To The Good Stuff.
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It’s amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don’t have anything else to do.
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Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.
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My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.
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Hell, nobody knows where jazz is going to go. There may be a kid right now in Chitlin Switch, Georgia, who is going to come along and upset everybody.
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When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out.
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My dream is to put together a performance of the evolution of black music with Cirque du Soleil . I would also like to do street opera and children’s books. But even as I work toward these things, I want to simplify my life.
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Making a record is like painting a school bus with a toothbrush.
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If I don’t have a mother, I’ll let music be my mother.
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Excellence isn’t an act, it’s a habit.
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China’s got a billion people and a hit record over there is a million records. You know that ain’t right.
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I was the most subtle person in the world.
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I look back and say, “This must have been somebody else.” I am not going to tell you that when I was 4, I dreamed about all of this.
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Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
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